As someone that does desktop support and whose work is quantified by the number of tickets closed each day, Friday is the most productive since that's the day I mass close all tickets which the customer has failed to respond to my attempts to communicate with them. As well as mass close all tickets over 2 weeks old even if I never attempted to contact the customer due to having too much work to do already. Fridays are awesome. Tuesday's are the worst, most people are too hungover to bother trying to show up for work on Monday so we don't get many tickets on that day, but they start showing up to work again on Tuesday and have either forgotten passwords, broken shit, or are too damn lazy to fill out some form they need to fill out and instead just call in a ticket. Idiots.

You took the time to express your desire to join. I don't think you're ASP material. Oh dammit... the phone rang and I just got booted. I'll show him though, I'll call the president as soon as I get around to it, and then he'll totally be out of there too...

Friday, because a lot of people in my office either telecommute or have 9/80 schedules, or just take vacation/sick days on Fridays a lot. So there are just less people around to interrupt me and I can get more done.

Similarly here. My most productive time is early in the morning before anyone else has come to office. The end of the day is also productive on many occasions, because I'll look at the clock, realize there's only a couple hours left, and work hard until the end of the day. The time goes by faster when you're busy. But that only works some days. Many days, by the time 3 o'clock rolls around, I'm exhausted.

I too voted Friday. I did so because I am always in a great mood. It's the last day of the week and I get to start the weekend soon (not that I am one of those "two more days til Friday" people). I also usually prepare a weekly report of what was accomplished that week. This is a good motivator as I want the weekly report to look good, so I get motivated to knock out things that in all honesty I should have already done, but I was just dreading.

We have a policy of not scheduling meetings on Thursdays. It's not 100% perfect but the meetings are fewer to non-existent on Thursdays so it's the most productive.

The morning hours are also most productive for me because I come in a couple of hours before others do so I can get a bunch of stuff done before I start getting interrupted. I used to have IM up but I was getting interrupted so often that I have a note: "IM is up for 5 interruptions then closed" as my message.

I keep track of my tasks in a database for yearly reviews among other things and find I log more hours on Wednesdays. Which doesn't necessarily make it more productive:)

There are vastly more ways for a house to be in disorder than there are for it to be in order, so anything that you do in home that isn't an effort aimed at decreasing the disorder of the house is very likely going to increase the disorder just by accident. That also explains why you need to clean up after you've cleaned the house, unless do everything in a perfectly planned and choreographed way.

Do work that you enjoy. I work in IT on weekdays, and am a music producer by night/weekends. Both are demanding and are definitely no cakewalk, and I rightly describe both as "work." But, I enjoy being a music producer, and typically don't feel like it's the same kind of work that requires me to force my brain to do it. I'm not resting when I'm making music, and certainly not while performing it, but I enjoy it, so I don't feel like it's forced. At times, it does feel like "work," but most of the time it's

There's a neat answer to this in the first ever 'time management' book how to live on 24 hours a day [gutenberg.org]. It's about the work week, but if you get your projects done then, you can have the weekend to yourself anyway.
Basically, as has since been confirmed by scientific research [dtic.mil], we are at our peak productivity in the afternoon - when we're at work - and our lowest energy levels in the evening, which is typically the time when we try to do our personal projects.
People then can't summon the energy to do their st

My weekends are counter-productive, I start out with a list of things I should get done but end up tinkering, playing, partying, chilling or whatever else I fancy instead. Nothing gets stricken and usually the list grows to include cleaning up and shaping up after the weekend. In fact, most things that produce a tangible output are chores I need to do for housekeeping, maintenance or other general upkeep of my belongings or person. Quite often I look back and think "sigh, I didn't get anything done this wee

Seriously. Its frustrating. I try to not work too late cause I want to see my kids before bedtime but right around 4PM is when I get this big rush of energy. It was great in college and when I was single but now it just creates conflict in my life. So I'm stuck between wanting to stay and work or head out the door.

Unless you have a stake in the company you feel will pay off handsomely, then head out the door.You family changes, and kids leave. Enjoy the short time you have.Or, don't see you kids and make some company that doesn't care about you more money, and cry when Cat's in the Cradle plays on the radio. whatevs.

For me, its Friday...without a doubt. I teach at a college. On Fridays:

1. Students are out the door as soon as they finish classes. This results in Friday being the quietest day in my building as well as the least busy day for student consultations.2. Many of my coworkers who have arranged a 4-day-work-week schedule are out (so less "problems" that I'm needed to fix or just less chit-chat)3. I'm motivated. Its the last day to get things done before the weekend. I try to have everything wrapped up fo

Because I can't sleep when I had too much coffee I sort of muddle on on most days. However on Saturday I can sleep in so falling asleep late on Friday isn't a problem. Thus on Fridays I can drink more coffee and there is so much that just becomes clear once I have enough coffee to really wake up. In effect I get about three times as much done on Friday.If I were to have the wednesday off I could add another day of triple productivity. However I think my boss would interpret such a request quite differently.

I guess most people are just guessing their productivity. However I could look it up in FishEye, which tells me my number of commits per day and hour. Wednesday wins, as does 15:00h. Monday on the other hand is my least productive day.... But I do not really hate mondays...

According to this: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/down... [lse.ac.uk] (see figure 1) most work is done on Tuesday through Thursday, with Wednesday being the most productive.
This matches the old story about a boss deciding people must be faking sickness because 20% of days off are taken on Monday and Friday.